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Powerful, flexible online surveys

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What is the Survey Contact?

…this and click Save. Important: A Survey Contact must be an online surveys user who is either part of the same online surveys account or has permissions for the survey….

Including a consent statement

they have not read and agreed to the terms and conditions. Note: Screening only takes effect when a participant completes a survey page and clicks on Next or Submit and…

Changing respondent details

…manually, one at a time. Export the respondent list, make the changes, and then import the amended list. Manually amending respondent records: On your Dashboard , locate your survey and…

Adding a video or other media content

Video and audio material cannot be hosted on the online surveys website. However, you can embed media that is hosted on an external service, such as YouTube or Vimeo, into…

Managing account responsibilities

…service, such as upgrades, detail changes, etc. Managing users within the account, including user account set-up and timely deletion of user accounts and data, where appropriate. Administrative tasks, such as…

How do I change the survey status?

…opening and closing dates are both in the past. A survey remains in draft status until it has been launched. Within online surveys, a survey is “launched” as soon as…

What is a ‘slug’?

…to change your survey short name to something that contains spaces, special characters, or other characters that are not able to be used in a URL, online surveys will prompt…

What is validation?

…be accepted. Date and time questions Start and/or end dates and times. Scale/Rank questions The minimum and/or maximum number of answers a respondent can select per row and/or per column….

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